New here and new KDX owner - in England
Posted: 12:12 pm Sep 03 2013
I've already put a couple of posts elsewhere and thought I'd better get in here before someone thought I was rude for not introducing myself !
I'm a Vinduro bloke so the air cooled bikes are my thing really. Back in the 80s I rode a few ISDEs and even though Jeff Fredette did pretty good on the KDX there were much better bikes for European enduro - SWM, Husky and Maico were my rides. I gave up competitive enduro in 1988 and then in 1990 I bought a new KDX to trail ride and motocross on (strange choice I know). I got that bike working really well and I actually qualified as a National Expert in MX. There were a lot of very scary moments that season, coming from Trials and then Enduro I was ok with jumping off things but jumping up and over - that was a skill I never mastered; hit it as hard as I dare, hope for the best and pray I landed between the ropes.
I sold the water cooled KDX at the start of 91 and bought a new YZ250WR, didn't like it, sold it - probably a great supercross bike but that's all.
Between then and 2011 I had a heap of street and dirt bikes then I got the Vinduro bug which is what's brought me to the aircooled KDX. There are way better bikes for racing but at 53 and with a pretty worn out body I think they might just be what I'm looking for.
That's me then.
Cheers, Clive.
I'm a Vinduro bloke so the air cooled bikes are my thing really. Back in the 80s I rode a few ISDEs and even though Jeff Fredette did pretty good on the KDX there were much better bikes for European enduro - SWM, Husky and Maico were my rides. I gave up competitive enduro in 1988 and then in 1990 I bought a new KDX to trail ride and motocross on (strange choice I know). I got that bike working really well and I actually qualified as a National Expert in MX. There were a lot of very scary moments that season, coming from Trials and then Enduro I was ok with jumping off things but jumping up and over - that was a skill I never mastered; hit it as hard as I dare, hope for the best and pray I landed between the ropes.
I sold the water cooled KDX at the start of 91 and bought a new YZ250WR, didn't like it, sold it - probably a great supercross bike but that's all.
Between then and 2011 I had a heap of street and dirt bikes then I got the Vinduro bug which is what's brought me to the aircooled KDX. There are way better bikes for racing but at 53 and with a pretty worn out body I think they might just be what I'm looking for.
That's me then.
Cheers, Clive.